Week Two, and with many thanks to element14 for sending the funding over, we had a design session last night and settled out on some materials.
<todo: put pictures in when i get them>
The idea is a pretty simple one. Growing up as technically minded people, the more awesome parents among us would provide the magic of the best gift ever: the 100 in 1 Spring Electronics Lab. Complete with the booklet, a large assortment of discrete components, and sproing! noise, it made circuit designers of us all.
We think that this concept is such an elegant one for teaching circuit theory, that our entry is simply this, only larger. Much larger. Friendlier. And with less poking in the eye.
To really create a teachable concept, though, and to lessen the risk of breaking the individual components while maximizing the opportunity for hands-on tinkering; our goal is to abstract each piece of the kit with the actual IEEE symbol for that discrete.
We are still finalizing the list of demonstration projects that we are going to include in the kit, and materials selection is underway, but it's a very exciting thing for us to work on and we're pleased to be sharing this with you.
Max
J, HSC